Re: checkbox question

Why cant you use square brackets?? call all your checkboxes the following: interesting_area[] Then post it to whatever page, now all the checkboxes that were checked are held in a array (interesting_area) To see what is contained in the array, do the following: <?php echo "<pre>"; print_r($_POST[interesting_area]); echo "</pre>"; ?> From here it depends on what you want to do with the data.. You can loop through the array, using for(), foreach() or while(), or alternatively write a function to manipulate the data. Hope that helps, Craig "Alex Shi" <chpshi@eol.ca> wrote in message news:20020909001408.28821.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > How to ontain data from a group of checkbox using same name? > For example, in a form there're 6 checkboxes and all named as > "Interesting_Area". I know if put a pairs of square brackets at the > end of the name then in php all the values of them can be ontained. > However, for some reason I cannot use square brackets. Please > help me out if anyone know how to do the trick. THanks! > > Alex > > > -- > --------------------------- > TrafficBuilder Network: > http://www.bestadv.net/index.cfm?ref=7029 >